Egg has an area of. Of this area, 58.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.1% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 12.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water made up 0.3% of the area. 12.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The lowest elevation in the municipality is the Greifensee at. The highest point in the municipality is the Pfannenstiel at. Egg is located in the Pfannenstiel region.
Districts
There are three villages in Egg: Hinteregg, Egg and Esslingen. There are also smaller settlements : Rällikon, Innervollikon, Usservollikon, Niederesslingen, Rohr, Schaubigen, Eichholz, Neuhaus, and Guldenen.
Egg has a population of. , 17.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.5%. Most of the population speaks German , with Italian being second most common and English being third. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS, the FDP and the CSP. The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 23.8% of the population, while adults make up 63.9% and seniors make up 12.3%. In Egg about 82% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 3068 households in Egg. Egg has an unemployment rate of 1.85%., there were 207 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 70 businesses involved in this sector. 567 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 63 businesses in this sector. 1404 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 251 businesses in this sector. 47.9% of the working population were employed full-time, and 52.1% were employed part-time. there were 2349 Catholics and 3412 Protestants in Egg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 48.8% were some type of Protestant, with 46% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 2.8% belonging to other Protestant churches. 29.2% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.6% belonged to another religion, 2.7% did not give a religion, and 14% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:
